We all remember those strange little sayings our Moms used while we were growing up.
Last year I posted this list, and I received so much feedback from other members here on Active Rain. So, I have added to the list, based on those comments.
Someday you'll thank me for this.
Eat your broccoli, it will give you hair on your chest.
This room looks like a tornado went through it.
In this house it's a dictatorship.
We're having poison for dinner and you're going to like it.
If you don't stop crying, I'll give you something to cry about.
Hay is for horses.
Children are to be seen and not heard.
Close that refrigerator door, what, do you think we own stock in the electric company?
Yes, I do have eyes in the back of my head.
Just wait until your father gets home.
There are starving children in Africa, eat your dinner.
Sit up straight, you're slouching.
When you get married and have kids, I hope you have one just like you!
Did you just roll your eyes at me?
I brought you into this world and I can take you back out.
Stop cracking your knuckles, they'll get big and ugly.
What do you think, I have ESP?
This is for your own good.
Because I said so, that's why.
This room is a complete pigsty.
Put your jacket on, you're going to catch pneumonia.
When you get to be my age, you'll know what I went through.
If you don't have something nice to say, than don't say anything at all!
Get that look off your face, or I'll get it off for you.
If I've said it once, I've said it a million times...
When you move out, then you can do whatever you want, but until then...
Eat your vegetables or you won't get any dessert.
I don't care what everyone else is doing. If Jimmy jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?
This is going to hurt me, more than it hurts you.
Put clean underwear on, in case you get in an accident.
What, am I speaking a foreign language?
You're going to sit there until you finish all your dinner, or you're getting it for breakfast.
I carried you for nine months...
If you don't straighten up this room, I'm going to hang you from your toenails.
Because I said so, that's why.
If you eat the seeds in the watermelon, you'll start growing sprouts out your ears.
Pick up your mess, I'm not your maid.
Yes, I do have x-ray vision.
Close the door, you think you were raised in a barn?
Stop making faces, the wind is going to blow and your face will stay like that.
Don't swallow your gum, it will stay in your stomach for 7 years.
I brought you into this world and I can take you back out.
One day you'll thank me for this.
Close your mouth when you chew.
I found myself saying some of these when my girls were younger.
What did your Mom used to say when you were growing up?
Moms are the BEST!
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
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that for you
The one line that I can remember very clearly was "go fetch the wooden spoon".
Hey..
I remember some of those! LOL
Also..
"tables are for glasses, not for asses"
"if you lie, your tongue will turn white"
"swallow a watermelon seed and one will grow in your stomach"
Oh and my favorite.. but this might have just been my tormenting mother.. lol..
"go in there and the boogy man will get you" .......LOL
Hope you're having a wonderful Mother's day! Thanks for bringing up old memories!
~ Vienna
My favorite was..."for crying out loud!" Thanks for the smiles!
Hi Sandy, I couldn't really remember any sayings until I read the list and guess what-I do recall many AFTERALL! ^_~
I hope you had a great day with your family!
There must have been a manual with all of these saying in them because I heard them all!
Featured in the Group "Whacked!!!
Sandy
Thanks for sharing your mother must have known by mother.
Good luck and success.
Lou Ludwig
Very funny Sandy. I think my Mom may have said all of these at one time or another.
I think I heard just about every one of those motherly quotes, now I just sit next to her and hold her hand...
I hope your week is off to a grand start Sandy,
Paul
"Let sleeping dogs lie" "Live and let live" Yes, I can relate! By the way, you not like to eat your vegetables and you kept your room a mess!!! ? Didn't we all...
My Mom was big on the starving children one, and at one point in time probably said all the others. It's funny, now. but not so funny at the time.
Say that one more time and you'll get your mouth washed out with soap!
We'll have none of that around here!
What do you think we are? Made of money!
Thanks Sandy, that was fun! (No, my Mom didn't say that.)
I think I could make a list just as large from my mom alone. Hey doll baby!!! Is what she is known for.
shelton
Shut the door, we're not air-conditioning the outside...... My mom had nine children and when she was a bit miffed at one of us and called, she would start at the top and go down the list, add a few and land on the correct kid's name..... that always cracked me up. Plus, she said all that other stuff too. Thanks for the laughs.
Sandy, I hope you had a fantastic Mother's Day! Thanks for the chuckle, I have uttered many of those lines myself!
Every time I got hurt I would here - "It will be better by the time you get married"
Malcolm, Uh oh, that sounds like it would have hurt. I never get paddled with a wooden spoon. But, those are some scary words coming out of an angry mother.
Vienna, Your mom had some good ones. The only one of those I heard was the one about the watermelon seeds. Funny, the things moms came up with.
I remember that one - "for crying out loud" - too funny. That's when you knew you were going to get a lecture.
Bruce, Interesting that you didn't remember many until you saw the list. I can remember so many things my mom and dad used to say.
Richard, I think moms did have a manual. So many of our moms were saying the same things.
Mary, You're right - it is fun to think back on all these funny little sayings, now. But, I agee, that back when mom was saying these to us, it wasn't too much fun.
Kevin, 3 more great ones! I can't believe I missed the one about getting your mouth washed out with soap. Because I was a child whose mom said that to me, she meant it, and I remember the one time that she actually did it. It was awful! My sister had to sneak me a glass of water afterwards.
Allen, It's fun to think of the warm hearted ( and the oh so not warm hearted) things she used to say.
Margaret, Wow, 9 kids - that's a lot of children. You had one full house. That's funny because my mom used to do the same thing with the names - Jean, Linda, Sandra...she would yell, till she got the right one of us. I had forgotten about that. But, I have found myself doing that to my own kids.
Caren, I did have a wonderful Mother's Day, It was also my daughters birthday. We went up to the port and had an early bird dinner at the port, and sat outside, while we watched the cruise ships pulling out of port. Then we went walking on the beach for a perfect day. I hope yours was wonderful also.
Jean, Wow, by the time you get married -that's along time away. That's one I hadn't heard before.
Sandy,
Yes, mother's words of wisdom....
Ann Hayden in Wildwood, MO
Hey Ann, And oh how wise our mother's were.
Yes, Sandy....
WISE and smart....
Ann Hayden in Wildwood, MO